[Talk-us] Parks in the USA, leisure=park, park:type

[Mateusz Konieczny]

29 Apr 2019, 15:28 by bradhaack at fastmail.com:

> It doesn't restrict, as the leisure:park wiki does, to smaller, urban human-sculpted parks.
>
I am partially responsible for recent rewrite. The rewrite was supposed to explain how leisure=park
is used in OpenStreetMap, and not redefine meaning of this tag. USA is a tricky case as typical
use of leisure=park was not matching use of leisure=park that was intended and initial and
dominating in other well mapped areas.

Restricting to "human-sculpted parks" was 100% intentional, "smaller" as in "area covering 
hundreds square kilometers is extremely unlikely to be leisure=park" was intentional.

Restricting it cities was not intentional and should be fixed if it  happened, some leisure=parks
exist in rural areas.

> Why not simply call anything which is a 'large public area for recreation', a park, and specify it additionally with additional tags?
>
That would require redefining leisure=park and while would match use of word "park" in USA
it would start mismatching use of work "park" in UK. It would also start to mismatch how
leisure=park is used in Europe.

Generally British English is preferred in OSM and redefining popular tags is deeply problematic.

If someone feels that leisure=park as described by me here (and partially on Wiki)
misrepresents situation - I would participate in some wider discussion 
on global tagging mailing list if someone would start it.

Just recently leisure=park OSM Wiki page was basically without definition and discussion
page had basically failed definition attempt and I hope that was is now on the page is an improvement
over no definition/explanation at all, but...
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